Media Release: Kevin Rhodes Returns to Vienna State Opera Ballet

KEVIN RHODES RETURNS TO VIENNA STATE OPERA BALLET FOR FOUR PROGRAMS BEGINNING IN MARCH

The Massachusetts-based American conductor Kevin Rhodes will return to the Vienna State Opera Ballet for his 23rd season beginning in March. He will conduct four separate ballet programs during the Vienna State Opera Ballet’s 2017-18 Spring Season. Maestro Rhodes conducted The Stuttgart Ballet’s production of the classic Swan Lake last December, and serves as Music Director and Conductor of The Springfield Symphony Orchestra in MA; Traverse Symphony Orchestra in MI, and as Principal Conductor of Boston’s Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra.

On March 9, 10, 11, and 13, and April 2,7, 12, and 14,  Maestro Rhodes conducts a return engagement of the ballet Raymonda with its Glazunov score. For the Vienna State Opera Ballet’s trailer for Raymonda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0deBzDnsdE

On April 16, May 3 and 5, Maestro Rhodes conducts a program that includes two ballets by New York City ballet legend, George Balanchine: Theme and Variations with music by Tchaikovsky and the Stravinsky Violin Concerto. The program also includes John Neumeier’s Bach Suite III, and Jerome Robbins’ comic ballet The Concert, with  music by Chopin. For program details: https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/en/season-tickets/detail/event/967923530-balanchine-neumeier-robbins/  For the Vienna State Opera Ballet trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=AYQ9Q-jhe04

On June 8, 9, and 12. Maestro Rhodes conducts The Vienna State Opera Ballet’s program of British choreography, which includes Conerto, with choreography by Kenneth MacMillan to music by Shostakovich; Eayne McGregor’s Eden with music by Steve Reich, and Frederick Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand, choreographed for Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn to the music of Lizst. For program details: https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/en/season-tickets/detail/event/967926866-macmillan-mcgregor-ashton/

On June 29, Maestro Rhodes conducts the annual Nureyev Gala, which will commemorate what would have been the international ballet dancer and choreographer’s 80th birthday. For details: https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/en/season-tickets/detail/event/968030631-nurejew-gala-2018/: 

For Kevin Rhodes’ website: http://kevinrhodesconductor.com/

For Kevin Rhodes biography: http://www.parkerartists.com/Kevin-Rhodes.html

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